Assumed knowledge: For mathematics: Mathematics Extension 1.
All applicants
Refer to Avondale’s general admission criteria .
Course overview
Avondale's Bachelor of Arts (BA) is a three-year degree designed to present arts within a Christian world view and to help you understand society and your role in it. The course gives you opportunities to develop your abilities in problem-recognition and solving, research skills, analysis, synthesis and creativity, critical and reflective thinking, and written and non-verbal communication.
The degree provides broad preparation for future employment, as well as a sound basis for those wishing to pursue graduate diplomas and other postgraduate qualifications. Studying Arts will develop your higher critical thinking skills and encourage exploration of how you view the world and yourself.
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Practical experience
Placements giving students practical experience are incorporated into the study areas of Counselling (Specialisation only) and Chaplaincy. Counselling students engage in their clinical placement for one day per week, in the final year of their course.
Fees and charges
Career Opportunities
Career opportunities
Chaplaincy: Chaplain, aged care chaplain, hospital chaplain, school chaplain, youth worker. Counselling: Counsellor, marriage counsellor, family therapist, school counsellor, welfare and youth counsellor. Humanities: Writer, researcher, historian, publisher, museum curator. Music: Musical director, conductor, music studio teacher, freelance musician, arts administration: concert agent, manager, critic and reviewer. Psychology (after completion of necessary postgraduate studies for psychology registration): School psychologist, clinical psychologist, research psychologist, forensic psychologist, neuropsychologist, sports psychologist, social welfare officer, family service officer. Visual Arts: Commercial fine art ceramicist, gallery curator, fine artist, commercial artist, graphic artist.
Majors
Areas of study
Accounting, biological science, chaplaincy, chemistry, communication, counselling, education, English, food and nutrition, geography, history, human resource management, humanities, marketing, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religious studies, visual arts.
Entry requirements
Review the captured standard entry requirements, English requirements and additional notes for this course.
Standard entry
Applicants with recent secondary education
Student profile
Total students8
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